Bush Administration Cut Mine Safety Funding as Early as 2002

[louis c]

After appearing in Pennsylvania for a photo-op in August of 2002, this article was printed. You'll get the picture.

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That spirit, though, was not present this year (2002) when the Bush administration proposed cutting the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by 7 million dollars. The administration defended the 6-percent reduction by noting the number of coal mines has been decreasing. Yet coal mining fatalities have gone up three years in a row. In March (2002), Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) maintained the funding cut would cause a 25% reduction in the government's mine-safety workforce.

link:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=90

[wishlist]

1. ABC Evening news had a scathing report about Bush and mine safety

ABC had a surprisingly hard hitting report tonight including interview with a government inspector who claimed that his hands were tied and enforcement of safety rules was not being done.

[Metta]

2. When the task gets lost, people get hurt.

An axiom in social services. The job of government is to take care of people. The * cabal won't restore any cut funding unless someone dies on national tv and then it's with a song and a dance and some slight of hand towards their patrons.